PAWS A HEYTHROP LION PRODUCTION WINTER 2014
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Culture Editor Jordan Mant
Season’s Greetings from The Lion team! Full to the brim with Christmas fun and non-denominational cheer, we wholeheartedly hope you enjoy this festive edition of PAWS - the Heythrop Lion magazine. Whether you celebrate this season or not, you can revel in the kindness and generosity brought out in people over the next month and enjoy the aesthetics of the warm and bright festivities raging on around you.
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Head Writer Robert Leftwich
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Happy Holidays from The Lion Editors!
CONTENTS 1 Christmas 400 Years Ago 2 Top 10 Things to Get in the Christmas Mood 4 Band Aid 30 5 What Christmas Means to Different Religions 6 Christmas Top 5s 7 Discover London! 8 Welfare Tips 9 Winter Recipes 12 Festive Fun and Factoids
Magazine Creative Team: Meg Skingsley Katt Johnson
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Disclaimer: Not suitable for Scrooges as this magazine contains lots of festive cheer for the holiday season.
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CHRISTMAS 400 YEARS AGO
Rebecca Pyke Cooking Correspondent Founded in 1614, Heythrop College celebrated its 400th birthday this year. Therefore, at Christmastime this year, we are not only looking to the future of the college which seems unclear at present but also to its past. So, whilst you may be tucking into a mince pie or slurping down gallons of hot chocolate this festive season, spare a minute to think of all the modern appliances which make your Christmas convenient (even the humble kettle plays its part). In Britain, the tradition of Christmas 400 years ago was a completely different story. The biggest problem to face when it came to a lavish Christmas lunch was having to cook the entire meal over a fire. This caused many problems, specifically with cooking times and the rather vague recipes which instructed you to ‘cook till it was done’. These surviving recipes tell us that the domestic practices of simply cooking a flavoursome meal took a large amount of effort and elbow grease. Collecting the water needed for washing and cooking was very physical work as well as lighting the fire, kneading dough for bread, boiling and extracting gelatine from pig’s trotters as well as crushing up sugar which was tiresome labour. A extravagant meal not only took a range of skilled, strong servants but also a large amount of money, and so the
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poor simply did what they could to survive. They would not have even been able to have any kind of poultry as this was considered a luxury - especially chicken, as it was also a source of eggs. If you were lucky enough to enjoy a Christmas feast, the menu would have consisted of many roast meats. The centre piece may have been wild boar, ferocious animals that the gentry hunted. Wild boar has now been hunted to extinction in Britain but has, in small pockets, been re-introduced from the continent. There may also have been venison, a highly prized meat the wealthy would display at feasts to show their social status considering hunting was a privilege that was only extended to the upper classes. Fish from the river would have been common place at meal time, such as brown trout caught by hand or by traps. Many poultry birds would have been farmed for the table, the most impressive and elaborate dish being peacock pie. This dish displayed the entire peacock skin on a wire frame over the pie, giving it the appearance that the bird was still alive and spitting fire. The sweeter side of the Christmas feast was the most expensive. Sugar and spice were worth their weight in gold and where the pinnacle of opulence. These goods would have been handled with great care and overseen by a senior member of the household to ensure the servants did not
run off with nutmeg or a cinnamon stick tucked hastily into their pocket. All of the dishes were produced fresh in one massive batch. This would have been a terribly difficult task and every aspect of the feast would have been planned in full. All the fresh produce would have come from a garden that held a variety of plants including those with medicinal and cleaning properties and dinner was supplemented from the same source with a great collection of herbs as well as what is now considered the ‘simple’ strawberry. This spectacular feast only the most wealthy of society enjoyed was a lavish affair. Whilst a tantalising vision, it was hard and expensive work. Although our Christmas dinner has evolved into a roast turkey lunch with crispy roast potatoes, golden parsnips, glorious Brussels sprouts and maybe the odd puffy Yorkshire pudding, it is nothing compared to a peacock perched on the table but it also doesn’t require a banquet hall and comes easily with modern appliances. It remains, however, that the Christmas feast is still the pinnacle of our festive celebration and is a quintessential symbol of British culture that embraces the spirit of community and family. So wherever you are this holiday and whether you are enjoying peacock pie or not, have a fantastic Christmas.
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CULTURE
TOP 10 THINGS TO GET
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IN THE CHRISTMAS MOOD
1 23 456 7 8 9 10 Fairy Lights
Because
nothing
screams
‘CHRISTMAS’ more than the warm glow of completely useless light. Draped around everything - Christmas trees, banisters (if you’re one of those weirdos who hates tinsel) - the atmosphere of the room is instantly calmed to accommodate watching snow drift from the sky.
Cinnamon
Knit-ware
TV Adverts
The gateway to Christmas is,
and there’s no arguing about this, when you see the Coca
Cola Christmas Ad. The Truck pulls up, Santa’s there, maybe a polar bear or two and, boom, it’s socially acceptable
for there to be Christmas every-
where. And I won’t hear a word of
your
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‘commercialisation’.
Last Christmas
I’m just gonna take a second to
You
know
what
I’m
talk-
say a little ‘thank you’ to this
ing about - not this time the
gem, this perfect spice, without
previous year but that 1984
which so much of the essence
Wham! classic that everybody
of Christmas would be gone.
knows the chorus to and no
No gingerbread, bland fruit-
one knows the rest of (except,
cake, no candles that one sniff
maybe, George Michael). Last
instantly transports you to a
Christmas, I gave you my
time of warmth and happiness
heart but the very next day you
and heart-enlarging kindness .
gave it away. Thiiiiiiis year...
Love Actually
Advent Calendars
It’s woolly scarf season. Time to
We’re not saying it’s the greatest Around August these things start
wrap up like a mummy. Time
Christmas film out there (that appearing in the shops and so it
to dig into those cupboards and
award goes to Die Hard - please begins; the four month build of
find out those Christmas jump-
send all complaints to: the bin) excitement because now you re-
ers because oh, yes have you
but as soon as you see the all- member - Christmas is coming.
been looking for an excuse to
star cast assemble, you can’t And then, you get one that gives
start wearing those reindeer-in-
wait to find an excuse to watch you mini presents every day or
fested garments
again since
any festive film - even if it’s this involves candles - that’s exciting
you were ungraciously forced
classic for the 104th time or in itself! One look of these in
to put them away in February.
the Muppet’s Christmas Carol. the shop and Christmas begins.
Chocolate Coins Roast Trimmings
Red and Green
Oh, what’s that as you saunter Parsnips, cranberry sauce, stuff- Like you aren’t in the festive down the chocolate aisle at the ing, sprouts, red cabbage, the list mood already because of the collocal supermarché? Chocolate goes on. At no other time of year our scheme of this page! Holly for four times the price because does it occur to put this food on bushes, Christmas trees, Santa’s it’s wrapped in foil? Yes, please! your plate. The seasonal vege- elves, they all rock this combiThey go in stockings and work tables are understandable but nation. There’s no doubt about great as that non-committal stuffing? Why? Maybe they’re it, any time of the year, if you present to distant family, and afraid we’ll get addicted to it see those two colours side by they taste... kinda disappointing and end up selling ourselves on side your mind is drawn to this but like Christmas nonetheless. street corners for breadcrumbs.. most wonderful time of year.
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COMMENT
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Dan Tripp Life Member It’s pretty fashionable these days to bash the mainstream and decry charity work as being ultimately self-centred and based around less than noble motives. On the other hand a lot of people would also argue that if the outcome is beneficial, if money is raised and people are helped, then the motives involved are irrelevant. They might even go so far as to say that those who wish the moralise and judge are they themselves being immoral by putting down people helping others in need. Then there are times when discussions about charity become a lot easier, and that’s when what’s being done in the name of charity ends up having a detrimental effect on an entire society. It might be a bold statement, but that’s honestly what I believe Band Aid’s new single is doing. I don’t want to turn this article into celebrity bashing, and I don’t sign up to the line that these people would be better of giving their money than their time. I don’t think the default position should be if you have money you should throw it at the nearest charity, and in reality setting up a framework for giving that could continue over a long duration is better than a one of cash splurge; why do you think so many companies want you to sign up to contracts and direct debits? No, the trouble with Band Aid’s song is that it puts Africa down. It speaks of a place where kisses are filled with death and to comfort is to fear. Sorry, what? At the very least Band Aid have decided this time not to clump an entire continent into one category, attempting to pigeon hole a cornucopia of different cultures and people. Instead they’ve clumped it into a smaller, yet still gigantic grouping of simply ‘West Africa’. If you are not aware, this
year’s Band Aid single has been updated to reflect the outbreak of Ebola, and the lyrics reflect this. Yet you might be surprised to find that West Africa is, on the whole, not inundated with the crippling and terrible disease. West Africa is a grouping of 18 countries. Only three of these countries are suffering from the epidemic. While there have been deaths in Nigeria and Mali, they are not considered part of this grouping. There’s been more deaths in one country however than the 13 other countries combined – the United States of America. If I were in charge of one of those 13 countries I’d be getting my lawyers on the phone and suing for libel. Band Aid are making strong unsubstantiated claims about a large number of people in a large number of countries. They are labelling entire countries as disease ridden hell holes. This is not to say that there isn’t trouble or strife in these countries, but how can we expect change when we treat them as some kind of death trap. Many of these countries rely heavily on tourism for their income, and these kind of songs portray an untrue picture of countries which actually have a large amount of economic potential and histories literally spanning to the dawn of time. Songs like this
amount to unintentional propaganda that can prevent growth through tourism channels, and through that reduce the number of jobs. As someone who has gone out in the heyday of my youth to do charity work in West Africa, I can assure you of one thing. It is not a place that you see on your TV screen, of people starving in the streets and children crying. It is a place a joy and acceptance, of children singing and playing together, of families working together and true community that we can only dream of in our Western societies. I was invited into peoples home, invited to someone’s wedding, treated by everyone I met as a close and loyal friend as if I had known them for years. And if the people I met didn’t work in schools, they worked at tourist shops, at hotels, as cleaners. Earning a wage so that their children, nieces and nephews might get an education. If those hotels close, if those tourists stop coming, what will happen to those families? “No peace and joy in West Africa this Christmas” the song goes. Ebola is a terrible disease, and deserves to be eradicated just like any other horrible disease that threatens us. Songs like this, however, might end up doing more damage than this disease might ever do.
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DEIST PERSPECTIVE Robert Leftwich Head Writer
I’ve often wondered if it’s hippocritical of me to celebrate Christmas given that I’m not a Christian in any sense beyond a broad cultural one. The fact that there are many pagan holidays around the same date isn’t much of an excuse as I’m not a Pagan either so perhaps I should leave the holidays to those for whom it has a deeper religious meaning? But then again Christmas isn’t purely about celebrating the birthday of Jesus of Nazareth is it? At least not to many of us. It has other meanings I can get behind, like being with family and friends, giving to charity, eating too much food and forgetting about the cold and the dark if only for a day. I find, as I’m sure most of us do, the various pagan and secular rituals are nice. Bringing in the tree, preparing the feast and of course the copious amounts of alcohol. Perhaps it’s something we can all just enjoy, and the message of brotherhood, charity and togetherness should allow us to cast aside our theological and philosophical dilemmas and just lose ourselves in the magic of the season. Or perhaps I am just a hippocrite. Either way , I shall be a happy, and slightly tipsy one come the 25th of December, as perhaps it’s one of those things that you don’t really have to justify enjoying. With that said Christmas is the only time of year where I honestly wish I could believe it. Christmas for Christians seems to be so full of lovely little rituals. The midnight mass in
JESUIT PERSPECTIVE
CHRISTMAS TO OTHER RELIGIONS
a candle-lit church, the songs, the advent candles, the jubilance at the birth of “the light of the world”. Christmas always seems so much more pleasant and inviting than say Easter, lent or ascension day (which are arguably far more significant Theologically speaking) There is just something about Christmas that really pushes all of my disagreements with Christianity to the back of my mind far more than any other time of year. Perhaps it’s something about the dark and the cold that just makes the story and the holiday fit together so well. Perhaps we just want to hear about the birth of a light and saviour in winter more than spring? Or perhaps it’s just me. In any case, regardless of whether or not I “should” enjoy it, it’s the time of year that I just can’t help but love.
MUSLIM PERSPECTIVE Aishah Mehmood Postgraduate
My relationship with Christmas is a weird one. One of my earliest joyful memories of primary school was a Christmas trip. Walking in the cold, looking at the holly and lights, and making Christmas cards in primary schools with so much glitter. You know how precious glitter was when you were young. Rather anything shiny was prized. Like with any Pokémon card you got, the worth of a card was instantly elated when it was a ‘shiny card’ and the ‘oohs and ahs’ that followed along with it. So Christmas to me has always been attributed with shiny tinsel, warm colours like red and lots of lights. More importantly it’s that time when you get a break from school. Yes. That’s the most magical part of it as a kid. And seeing the Christmas lights during the Christmas break. However, as I’ve grown older, Christmas appears to have a different meaning to me it seems. Firstly it’s a Christian holiday that is so popular with people of all different belief backgrounds. But sometimes I worry whether the meaning of Christmas has now become a hedonistic one. It’s become more about the presents. The money we all spend and the money we are pressured to spend by stores. And Santa Claus is not seen as a ‘good man’ but sometimes he’s seen as a major stress factor. Kids want to restore their young faith
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in Santa Claus, and that inevitably puts pressure on parents and relatives to give their loved ones a ‘perfect’ gift. Did you know Christmas season is the time many people request loans or place bets? And many people as a result, end up in debt. So I have a weird relationship with Christmas. A Christian can argue to me that Christmas is not about presents or buying a tree, it’s about the significance of the day. And I deeply respect that. However, why is it that Christmas is a holiday which necessitates expenditure? That is the most unfortunate aspect of Christmas. For some Christmas is a wonderful time with family and friends and being thankful. I prefer that message more than the message of spending and getting the right gift. Because in today’s society, many of us don’t have much money to spend and some find it hard to pay their monthly rent. But Christmas sometimes puts so much pressure on people to spend more than they may have already. So you might wonder how your Christmas will be this year for you.
Gonzague Lalanne-Berdouticq Third Year Undergraduate
One of my fellow Jesuit went a few years ago to a faith school to speak about Christmas. Listening to him, one of the students there was totally amazed and could not refrain from exclaiming: “The Christians want to appropriate Christmas!” Is Christmas indeed still a religious feast? As a child, it is true that Christmas was much more exciting from the perspective of the gifts than the idea of midnight mass in a frozen church.
However, I would probably have missed something without this hidden meaning behind the presents: the Christmas songs, and the crib which received the Child Jesus at midnight on the 24th. A few years ago I spent some months working for a homeless charity, and I was in particular involved in the preparation of our Christmas party. During the evening beside the oysters, the salmon and the lamb, we took some time around the crib to listen one more time to this story of this traveling and unwelcome family, which gave birth among animals and shared his joy with the pariah of the time. At the end of the party, one of the guys who had arrived seriously drunk thanked us because this evening had not only been about food, gifts and drink. There had been this something else, which had meant that we had really celebrated Christmas together. I am not saying that lamb, oyster, chocolate and gifts are bad. On the contrary, I think that they are a very faithful sign of what Christians commemorate at Christmas. This is something so unbelievable and so simple that we can very easily conceal it. It is the news that the Almighty who had freed Israel from Egypt, has come to dwell among us as a human baby. This is the news that the One, whom we could not pronounce the Name, has been revealed as “God with us”: Emmanuel. The One that you are looking for in the origin of the universe, in the highest sphere of the human reason, is displayed in a historically and culturally conditioned nature. Thus, our human nature in all its conditionings is fully capable of God. Each simplest act of our daily life has become a sacred act, an act by which we can love and be loved by the font of love. I feel I may have lost some Kantian minds in love with unconditional a priori. In the Bible the dialectic of singularity and universality finds a radical answer which is incompatible with jealousy. This is to say, I do not possess what you possess but I have access to what you possess through you. This is through one chosen people and through one Man that we can participate to the divine life. At the end, it seems to me that you will never eat enough turkey, chocolate and offer or receive enough presents to express the length of this mysterious and joyful news. But try it. And if it is not successful, may I suggest you to look up at the sky, soon the days are going to grow again, this is what is happening, in our humanity with the story of Jesus, the night no longer has the last word.
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Christmas Top 5 Music
Movies
Jacob Tong Events Officer
Gereon Kramer Postgraduate
1 2 3 4 5
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The XX - Last Christmas (Radio 1 Live Lounge Wham! Cover)
1. Love Actually The most famous Christmas love movie ever!
Straight away we can ditch George Michael’s creepy volumized hair (yes I am just a bit jealous of it) and cringey winter outfits for a more heartfelt version of this classic. It may, in truth, be slower and not appeal to anyone but when there is nothing more appealing than easy-going background music for the festive period, this song will surely be perfect.
2. Home Alone Funny and surprising, Kevin McAllister is trying to handle life alone
Joseph Spence - Santa Claus is coming to Town This fantastic version of a traditional Christmas song has long been my favourite of the festive season. There’s nothing I’d rather hear sat down opening presents to than this legendary guitarist. It may not be something that you’ll hear in shops or restaurants this year but it’s definitely worth a listen with friends and family trying to get as drunk as he sounds. George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Rock and Roll Christmas From the guy who brought you ‘Bad to the Bone’, you now have a song to listen to at the diner with all your friends as you drink ‘shakes. Nothing happier than an upbeat rocky Christmas song to get you dancing off your post-turkey-demolishing blues. Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis Anything that features three badass rappers from Queens rapping about being lovely to Santa, snow and Mac & Cheese is definitely going to be included in my Christmas playlist. Not to mention that it also features in, what has been called one the greatest Christmas films of all time, Die Hard! This track samples from the songs Jingle Bells, Frosty the Snowman and Joy to the World. To call this the ultimate Christmas song would be an understatement. Taylor Swift - Santa Baby SHE’S ONLY GONE AND DONE IT AGAIN. From her 2007 Christmas album, “The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection”, she grabs her guitar and with country twang she smashes one of the biggest and best Christmas classics. I will be listening to this song and the whole album for the rest of my life not just this year’s festive season. And, of course, one of the songs from the album features a sad Tay Tay missing an ex-lover underneath the Christmas tree. Come on gurl, you don’t need no man, you’ve got all the hits.
3. The Grinch Is Christmas surviving? 4. The Polar Express One of the most fascinating Christmas tales and a wonderful film 5. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’ s Stone Not a real Christmas movie, but I definitely want to spend one Christmas at Hogwarts
Television Catherine Squibb Web Development Officer 1. Doctor Who This year, The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Who will they call to help when they’re trapped on an Artic base? 2. Top Gear The boys are back with a two-part Christmas special in Patagonia. The long road trip through South America will, as usual, have some bumps in the road. 3. Strictly Come Dancing Do you want more glitter and sparkles?... Tess and Sir Bruce are back for a one-off Panto-themed Strictly Come Dancing Special with a cast from the past. 4. EastEnders Join the Carter family for their first Christmas in the Queen Vic - what lies and drama will emerge this year? And the death toll is always wonderful. 5. Mrs Brown’ s Boys The classic family chaos descends on the Brown’s as per usual in this two-part Christmas Special.
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Discover London!
CULTURE
Jordan Mant Culture Editor Winter Wonderland Hyde Park
Christmas Tree Maze
Christmas Lights
Winter Festival
Vauxhall
Everywhere!
Southbank Centre
Let’s start with the obvious but
The Capital is currently covered An evening winter walk along
a definite must for all Heythrop
in lights to celebrate the festive the Thames may sound pretty
folk – Winter Wonderland!
period. If you’re looking for
Just twenty minutes on foot
something free to do, then head pretty sight at this time of year.
from our college is an annual
into Central and enjoy some of
Thus, I definitely recommend
Christmas takeover of Hyde
the Christmas joy. Admitted-
a visit to the Winter Festival
Park. If you like rides then
ly, Central London is getting
down at London’s Southbank.
they have got it covered for
increasingly busy so the sooner In a similar fashion to Win-
you - Air, Power Tower, the
damn cold but it is also a rather
the better but there is lots to
ter Wonderland, the festival
Winter Wonderland Express,
Apparently, Christmas tree
see. Regent Street is currently
encompasses a Christmas
carousels, a helter skelter, the
mazes are all the rage this
one massive advert for the up-
market with stalls selling
Star Flyer, three rollercoast-
year! Until Jan 4th, you can
coming release of Night at the
festive drinks, food and plenty
ers and more. Rides not your
head to the Vauxhall Pleasure
Museum 3; giant stills from the of gifts and crafts. That’s not all
thing? Don’t worry as there is
Gardens and enjoy the maze
film are suspended in mid-air
though – I hear that they also
lots more on offer. Why not
of Christmas trees which has
and are covered in Christmas
have a Christmas tree maze
enjoy some live open air music
been installed. So, if you fancy
lights. Oxford Street is a feast
this year too. I’m assured that
in the many pubs which the
getting lost in a land of fairy
of lights at the moment; John
this is an intended attraction
site has? Or you can take a trip
light-decked Nordmann Firs
Lewis is covered in string lights, and is not just another name
to Santa Land or the ice rink.
which covers a near square
Marks and Spencer have lights
for people getting lost whilst
A definite for your visit has to
kilometre of the pleasure
which change every few min-
trying to pick out their Christ-
be a hot chocolate and a waffle
park, then this is probably
utes and transform the entire
mas tree. It’s not made clear
from the variety of food and
for you! I also hear that when
building into new arrays of
whether the maze is designed
drink stalls. We nearly forgot
visitors get to the centre of the
colour and Selfridges have the
for children, or kids and adults
to mention, the site is home
maze, they shall be greeted by
slogan ‘Destination Christmas’
alike but don’t fear if the trees
to a massive German market
a special Christmassy guest
towering above its customers
are in fact small in height – it
– so whether you’re looking
(*crosses fingers* please be
on their way into the store.
surely just means that you get
for more inventive Christmas
Santa, please be Santa!) As it’s
Closer to Heythrop, Harrods is
the upper advantage at beating
presents or if you fancy treating
a Christmas event in London,
also looking rather spectacular
the maze! The festival also has
yourself, Winter Wonderland
it is of course accompanied by
at the moment; smothered in
the Southbank Centre Express
is a must-see in London. Plus,
an ice rink, street food stalls, a
lights (in a classy way, obvious- (£4 to ride), an artist instal-
of course, you don’t even have
cabin bar and a craft market.
ly) and their windows are also
lation of five seven-metre tall
to spend any cash if you don’t
The maze costs £4.05 to enter.
decorated with displays of var-
illuminated rabbits and some
want to – the site is free to
(‘Why the 5p?’ I hear you ask.
ious Christmas scenes. A great
live performances too.
enter and you can just soak up
That must be Santa’s booking
way to soak up the festivities
the festive spirit.
fee...?)
without having to pay anything!
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Welfare Tips The holiday season is a period where everyone can let their hair down and have a fun time. With stockings, presents and dinner, it’s hard to see how you can’t have a good time. However, Christmas and the New Year may be hard on some individuals who may be feeling lonely. It’s also the time of year when people may drink too much and end up hurting themselves. As much as we all want to have fun, there are several things we would like you to keep in mind during this festive time.
the Welfare Team, or our Student Support Officer, Dominic McLoughlin. Alternatively, if you don’t feel like you can speak to us, you may be happy to hear that there are charities out there who are willing to help. PAPYRUS is a voluntary organisation that supports teenagers and young adults and has a suicide prevention hotline (0800 068 41 41). Emailing a Samaritan at jo@samaritans.org is free, though not as immediate, as well as visiting studentsagainstdepression.org
Firstly, for those of you who maybe feeling down this time of the year, or who are suffering from depression, remember you’re not alone. If you need to speak to someone you can either talk to us,
Secondly, we would like you to keep our top tips in mind for when you are partying this Christmas and New Year
1. Going Out
3. Drinking
5. Pace Yourself
If you’re planning on going out with your Remember to always keep an eye on your Remember it’s not a race - drink at your friends, remember to stick together and drink. If you leave it then don’t drink own pace! Don’t feel the need to drink never travel alone. Plan your route home it. It is better to be £5 worse off than your pint or slurp one shot after anothand if needs be call for a taxi to get you to spend a night in hospital. Never ac- er. Don’t be that fool who spends their there. Keep emergency money on you - cept an open drink from a stranger be- night vomiting in the club’s dirty toilets. not to be spent on drinks or 4 am kebabs! cause you don’t know where it has been.
2. Money
4. Eating
6. Going Home
Only take enough money that you’re will- Remember - eating isn’t cheating! Nev- Never take an unlicensed taxi! We recing to spend, taking into account your er drink on an empty stomach and drink ommend downloading ‘Uber’ to help you journey home! This way you won’t ac- water throughout the night (pint for pint). book a safe taxi home. Go and add a taxi cidentally use your card to buy loads Your body will thank you in the morning! number to your contact list right now! of drinks which you really can’t afford.
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If you follow those tips you’ll have a fun night out! We hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Best Wishes, The Welfare Team.
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Winter Recipes Some of our festive favourites for this frosty season.
Stollen Stollen is my favourite German Christmas treat – over the years I’ve created several recipes, from dense fruity loaves to spicy wreathes. I have to admit I’m not a huge fan of dried or candied fruit so this year I’ve focused on a nutty warm loaf with a twist of alcohol!
Ana Bailey-Jones Third Year Undergraduate
Method:
nuts, 2 egg whites (save egg yolks for later!) 1. Stir a pinch of sugar into milk and
Ingredients: 70g sugar 250ml warm milk ½ oz active dry yeast 500g all-purpose flour
½ lemon - peel grated
minutes. Stir gently.
9. Grease a baking sheet.
2. Melt butter; cool slightly.
10. Knead dough and roll out to 45cm square.
3. Stir butter, 1 egg and lemon peel into milk mixture.
yolk and roll up. a large bowl.
100g brown sugar
together to make a dough.
8 tbsp dark rum ½ tsp ground cinnamon 120g icing sugar
12. Place on baking sheet and brush with the remaining egg yolk. Let stand for 15
5. Combine the two mixtures and beat
3 eggs
11. Spread with filling. Brush edges with egg
4. Sift flour, remaining sugar and salt into
100g round almonds
150g hazelnuts (100g ground, 50g chopped)
and half the rum and cinnamon separately.
sprinkle with yeast. Allow to stand for 5
½ tsp salt 100g butter
8. Mix almonds, brown sugar, ground hazel-
minutes. 13. Preheat oven to 425°F (220°C). Bake for
6. Knead dough on a lightly floured
30 - 40 minutes or until golden.
surface. 14. Mix icing sugar with the remaining rum 7. Cover and allow to rise in a warm place and spoon over warm stollen for 1 hour. 15. Sprinkle generously with chopped hazelnuts to finish.
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LEFTOVER MOON PIE GETTING
THE
MOST
OUT
OF
CHRISTMAS
DINNER
Rebecca Pyke Cooking Correspondent Ingredients: 1tbsp olive oil, 2-3 leeks, (this can be changed to use any leftover vegetables) Handful of ready-cooked leftover carrots, 1-2tbsp dried stuffing (or ready-made leftovers) 150ml/1/4pt hot vegetable stock 300g/11oz shortcrust pastry Flour for dusting 1 egg, beaten (for the egg wash)
Method: 1. Preheat your oven to gas mark 6/
5. Pour in the stock and let it bubble. Reduce
9. With a spoon, place the filling
amount of stock depending on stuffing require-
into the middle of each circle of
ments.
pastry.
6. Cook for around 3 minutes and season to
10. Fold over the edge of the circle
taste. Then put to one side to cool.
to get half moon shape pies. With a fork press down the edge where the
200oC/ 180 oC (fan oven). 2. Heat oil in a pan. Add the leeks and cook until soft. 3. Add the carrots and any other vegetables to be used up, and soften for a few
pastry meets. 7. Roll out on a floured work surface the pastry. Cut out circles of pastry of around 12.5cm or use a cutter. Just bear in mind the size of your
11. Place on a baking sheet and
circles has to be big enough to place the filling of brush with egg wash. Place the pies your pies.
in the already preheated oven.
8. With a pastry brush or your clean finger wipe
12. Keep an eye on your pies in
the egg wash around the edge of each circle of
the oven and remove when golden
pastry.
brown.
minutes depending on the firmness of your vegetables. 4. Sprinkle over the dry stuffing mix and stir to coat.
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Katt & Meg Creative Team
Orange
Aztec
Irish Cream
Ingredients: (serves four) 4 cups milk
4 cups milk
3 cups milk
150 g dark chocolate
2 oranges
1/3 cup single cream
1 tbsp cinnamon
150g regular chocolate
128g regular chocolate chips 1/2 cup Bailey’s Irish Cream
1/2 tsp chilli powder
Method:
1 tsp vanilla essence
1. Heat milk in saucepan on medium
1. Remove rind from oranges - without
1 . Combine the milk and cream in a
heat. Add cinnamon, vanilla and
pith (the white bit) - with a peeler.
small saucepan and bring to simmer on a medium heat.
chilli. 2. Melt chocolate separately in mi-
2. Combine orange rind and milk in
2. Add the chocolate chips to the sauce-
crowave (be careful!) or in glass bowl
saucepan and simmer on a medium
pan. Allow to melt, whisking frequently
suspended over a pan of boiling water.
heat, stirring frequently.
until fully combined
3. Combine milk and chocolate over
3. Sieve out the orange rind and return
3. Stir in the Bailey’s and transfer to
hob for a further 2-3 minutes, whisk-
milk to the pan.
oven-safe mugs. Top with marshmellows.
ing until foamy on top. 4. Pour out and add all the hot choco-
4. Stir in the chocolate and bring to a
4. Preheat grill on low. Place the mugs
late paraphernalia you desire - marsh-
simmer, whisking frequently.
under the grill and cook to satisfactory toastiness.
mellows/whipped cream/flake/candy cane/a dusting of cinnamon
FESTIVE
5. Decant and add the gubbins you
5. Remove from heat. Add your gubs.
want.
Enjoy!
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CHRISTMAS FUN AND FACTOIDS Try and spot the factoid in these festive facts. Robins on Christmas cards originated around 150 years ago when postmen wore red tunics and were referred to jokingly as robins.
The tradition of putting tangerines in stockings comes from 12th-century French nuns who left socks full of fruit, nuts and tangerines at the houses of the poor.
Candycanes are formed in their shape to represent a shepherd's crook and were handed out to the good 'sheep' (children) of the church during advent..
Do you recognise these seasonal celebs?
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Can you solve these merry muddles?
Dear Santa, This Christmas, The Lion would like ,
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A Dog that runs on a treadmill whilst dressed as a Teddy Bear £6,128
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Six Bananas
Smart Heretics Spice in ‘em Scathing Mud Drips
A real lion (please) World Peace
Hard A Camshafts Oil Wilt Ruin Rosy Honesty Warms Font He’s Fat, Smart, Rich
Parts of the Christmas tree are perfectly edible, with the needles being a good source of Vitamins A and E
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In A.D. 350, Pope Julius I proclaimed December 25 the official day of celebration for the birthday of Jesus.
In Greece, Italy, Spain and Germany, employees are entitled by law to a Christmas bonus of one month’ s pay.
Extra fun fact - 'factoids' are actually untrue but commonly held to be factual!
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Merry Christmas from The Lion Team
See you next year! PAWS 2015.indd 16
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